- #1 Fio and the Doomed City
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Caro BuildersPub: Emma Create
Windows · Mac
A “city-building” x “tower defense” SLG by a young girl, Fio. Fio and her guardians, the Flora Bears, are building a city in the last city of humanity. Increase facilities, residents, and resources, and prepare for battle. Withstand enemy attacks and defeat the boss with your big beam cannon!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, City Builder 19.9%, Base Building 16.8%, Tower Defense 13%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #2 Rise Under the Warstorm
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Last Signal
Windows
Rise Under the Warstorm is a strategy game focused on automation, production, and base defense. Gather resources, build automated production lines, optimize your economy, train armies, and protect your settlement against enemy waves.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, Automation 17.2%, Real Time Tactics 11.6%, Tower Defense 11.1%, City Builder 10.7%
- #3 Age of Respair
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Respair Games
Windows
Age of Respair is a medieval strategy castle-builder. Build massive castles with fortifications while managing resources and production chains. Assemble a large army and lay siege to enemy castles. Lead your people and bring respair to your kingdom🏰⚔️
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.1%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Real Time Tactics 11.3%, Automation 9%
- #4 Fill the Sky
95% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Orbital Entry Studios
Windows
A factory automation game where you are the mind of a self-replicating interstellar probe. Turn barren rock and ocean into sprawling industry that feeds the data centers you run on. Launch copies of yourself until they fill the sky. No enemies. Build at your own pace.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Automation 19.6%, Base Building 17%, City Builder 12.8%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #5 Sylox
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonz
Windows
Sylox is a short, minimalist base-building game with a touch of worker placement and strategic expansion. Assign workers to key tasks, unlock new buildings, expand, and defend your growing base against increasing enemy attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.6%, City Builder 20.7%, Tower Defense 14.4%, Base Building 11.2%, Strategy 8%
- #6 Captain of Industry
94% matchVery Positive90% of 11,659 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 10.3 hrsMean: 85.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 22.6%, Base Building 19.4%, Resource Management 14.9%, Colony Sim 12.8%, City Builder 10.6%
- #7 Deep Space Directive
93% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: One Wheel Studio
Windows
Resource management without micro-management! Build, defend, and optimize your ever-growing industrial colony in a dynamic hex-tile world. Buy low, sell high to expand and upgrade your base. Even your enemies are a resource to be exploited. Profit waits for no one!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.7%, Base Building 17.3%, City Builder 15.7%, Resource Management 13.1%, Automation 12.9%
- #8 Virum:Colony
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NeuroOre
Windows
A colony-building strategy about settling a hostile alien world. After a failed mission, your crew crash-lands on Erythra, cut off from Earth. Build a base from scratch, connect power and oxygen systems, manage colonists, and turn survival into a thriving colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 18.3%, Economy 10.1%, Resource Management 9.7%
- #9 Oasis Mission: Colony Sim
91% matchMixed61% of 119 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar pug studio
Windows · Mac
A Sci-Fi colony and strategy sim with a complex economy, immersive logistics, and a war against the rise of the machines! Build your colony and ensure supplies for your people. Automate industrial ships and create combat groups to defend against waves of enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, City Builder 14.3%, Automation 12.8%, Base Building 11.5%, Wargame 9.3%
- #10 Buoyancy
91% matchMixed55% of 831 reviews2019
Dev: Devs on a Boat
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 58%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.1%, City Builder 19.7%, Base Building 13.9%, Pirates 9.8% ★, Strategy 6.6%
- #11 Mechanocide: Fortress Omega
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Parsons Goldman Jones and Co
Windows
On a forgotten world, confront a malevolent machine intelligence. Extract minerals, build factories, power up the railguns, and arm the missile batteries. Defend the Fortress Omega against the alloyed nightmare.
Why similar: Base Building 22%, Automation 19.8%, Tower Defense 16.9%, Resource Management 12.6%, Wargame 8.7%
- #12 Aven Colony
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,789 reviews2017
Dev: Mothership Entertainment LLCPub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1%, City Builder 26.5%, Base Building 13.2%, Strategy 6.7%, Sci-fi 5.1%
- #13 Rise to Ruins
89% matchVery Positive88% of 7,765 reviews2019
Dev: Raymond DoerrPub: SixtyGig Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, City Builder 20.7%, Tower Defense 16.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Strategy 5.1%
- #14 Radia Island
88% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Radia Studio
Windows
Radia Island is a civilization-building survival game. Lead your people to a new land, establish your first town, gather resources, research technologies, advance into the industrial age, and ultimately complete the space program.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 12.4%, Automation 11.1%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #15 Project Oasis
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Magma Studios
Windows · Linux
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, City Builder 18.8%, Base Building 16.1%, Automation 14.5%, Economy 8.9%
- #16 CivDle
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: StarSoftware
Windows · Linux
A relaxing idle city-builder where a single hut grows into a sprawl of millions. Build production chains, let your civilisation expand while you're away, and Ascend to push the whole world up an order of magnitude.
Why similar: City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 18.2%, Automation 16.2%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Resource Management 12%
- #17 Comet Tycoon
85% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2026
Dev: CalmFrantix
Windows
Build and automate your way from a comet miner to an entertainment mogul in this isometric tycoon game. Harvest resources and buy bigger comets to keep more peeps happy, alive and profitable.
Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, City Builder 19.2%, Automation 18.5%, Colony Sim 15.6%, Resource Management 13.2%
- #18 Towerfolk
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 24 reviews2026
Dev: 99 Interactive
Windows
In a medieval world, gather resources, build your city, and manage your people. Deal with theft and internal conflicts, complete royal missions, and fight enemies on the battlefield. Use strategy and economic management to keep your city thriving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.2%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 15.9%, Tower Defense 9.8%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #19 Stronghold HD (2012)
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,454 reviews2013
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.8%, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Real Time Tactics 12.3%, Tower Defense 11.6%
- #20 Outlands
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HugMeGames
Windows
Build, Upgrade, Reset, Repeat
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3%, City Builder 22.2%, Real Time Tactics 11.8%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 9.8%
- #21 简单模拟 SimpleSimulation
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FENG LEIPub: FENG ELI
Windows
Simple Simulation is a 2D side-view mining and logistics builder. Drive your ship's tractor laser deeper into the planet, smelt ore into materials, chain them into automated production lines, and repair your ship to escape.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Base Building 20.4%, Automation 20.1%, City Builder 15.3%, Simulation 6.6%
- #22 SkillGrid
82% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Vlad BuculeiPub: Kanaforge
Windows
SkillGrid is a minimalist strategy game where you expand, manage, and defend a growing grid against an evolving hostile force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Real Time Tactics 14.9%, Automation 14%, Strategy 11.2%
- #23 Mox Modular
81% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Raadios
Windows · Linux
Help the gnome village of Mox Modular to grow in this incremental game. Play minigames, earn resources and build new buildings to progress. Can you earn all the achievements to make the village thrive?
Why similar: Colony Sim 33%, City Builder 26.5%, Resource Management 12.8%, Economy 12.6%, Simulation 6.2%
- #24 Planet Barren Objective
83% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: Kaan Özgül
Windows
Fight, upgrade, explore, and build your way out of a dangerous planet in this 2D pixel art side scroller. Stream of foes will keep you on your toes while beating them will reward you with much needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Base Building 14.5%, Automation 14.4%, Tower Defense 12.6%, City Builder 11.7%
- #25 Agromatic
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gimcraft
Windows
A farming and automation game where your automation is people. Hire workers, pay their salaries, build their houses, and lay out your farms and factories like a town. Produce and sell valuable goods to keep your business profitable. This isn't colony survival, it's running a company.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 16.8%, Automation 15.3%, Base Building 13.3%, Economy 10.5%
- #26 Devouring City
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Napforge Studio
Windows
Devouring City is a top-down management game about a living city that swallows giant minerals whole. Guide residents and organs as they digest matter, then turn visible resources into power, structures, inhabitants, and weapons. Balance expansion, production, and defense as your organism grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, City Builder 24.2%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 13.2%, Strategy 6.5%
- #27 Stronghold: Definitive Edition
79% matchVery Positive87% of 10,396 reviews2023
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.7%, City Builder 19.1%, Real Time Tactics 12.7%, Base Building 12.3%, Tower Defense 9.7%
- #28 Crow's Nest
79% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2023
Dev: Polyburg Studio
Windows
Embark on a journey in this city builder game, crafting and managing your own pirate island. Keep your crews satisfied and your captives in check, all while sending your ships out to gather gold from your nautical adventures.
Why similar: Pirates 27.7% ★, Colony Sim 23.5%, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Economy 8.9%
- #29 Oxygen: First Breath
78% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 40%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 20.7%, Base Building 19.2%, Resource Management 11.7%, Economy 10.3%
- #30 Our Freedom: Medieval Village - Prologue
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 19.4%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 8.9%
- #31 Empires Edge
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kaser Studio
Windows
Empires Edge is a strategy game about building a civilization on floating islands, inspired by the classic Mega Lo Mania. Lead your people, achieve technological breakthroughs, and conquer new territories as you forge an empire at the edge of the Universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 14.7%, Wargame 11%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #32 Compact Colonies
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: TunawareDevsPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, City Builder 18.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, Base Building 9.9%, Economy 9.2%
- #33 Frontera
76% match5 user reviews20% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Duality LLC
Windows
Frontera is primarily a fantasy city builder with emphasis on producing items for unit wants and combat. Units have four stats trainable at buildings that will also sell technology. Available items and production will grow strong enough to challenge the monsters that infest the rest of the island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, City Builder 23%, Economy 12.7%, Simulation 9.5%, Base Building 8.6%
- #34 Founders' Fortune
78% matchVery Positive80% of 2,189 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 56%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.5%, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 18.4%, Resource Management 6.4%, Economy 5.5%
- #35 HZ Industry
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Sade_112
Windows
Your factory feeds the fight—above ground and below. Automate ruthless production lines, hold your colony through raids, then descend into The Abyss: real-time champion combat where gear and gems actually matter. Build. Automate. Dominate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8%, City Builder 21.1%, Tower Defense 14.7%, Automation 10.7%, Strategy 10.1%
- #36 Cog Foo
74% match5 user reviews0% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: Anforus Games
Windows
A battle-laden automation game where you have to manufacture everything from battle units down to every bullet! Engage in battles to gather survivors. Manage and feed your people. Mine, farm and Optimize production lines. Can you lead your people to victory?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Automation 18.5%, Base Building 17%, City Builder 16.7%, Resource Management 11.6%
- #37 Kingdom Workshop
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dmitry Medvedev
Windows
Become a workshop owner! Build base, plan manufacture, hire workers, trade and finally decide the outcome of the war between the kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 14.8%, Automation 12.6%, Economy 11.6%
- #38 Territory: Farming and Warfare
73% matchVery Positive85% of 766 reviews2026
Dev: Wit Studio
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.2%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Automation 13.9%, Real Time Tactics 9.7%
- #39 Wah!Topia
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kobalto Games
Windows
In the depths of the astral seas a bunch of crafty kobolds will need to defend and resist chaos to survive. Wah!Topia is a colony simulation and defense game where you manage resources, build stations and protect the monument.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.1%, City Builder 22.2%, Tower Defense 15.4%, Real Time Tactics 11.7%, Strategy 10.7%
- #40 Wall World Strategy
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alawar
Windows
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1%, City Builder 14.8%, Base Building 14.7%, Tower Defense 12.5%, Resource Management 10.5%
- #41 Goblin Colony
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5%, Base Building 20.1%, City Builder 17.9%, Resource Management 13.3%, Strategy 6.5%
- #42 Magnery Reign
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: REDIZITPub: REDIZIT Game Studio
Windows
Feel yourself as the manager of your city. Build a settlement, strengthen your defenses, repel attacks, trade, loose and enjoy the long-awaited victory.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3%, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 14.6%, Automation 11.3%, Wargame 11%
- #43 TOWERPUNK
72% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TESSERAX GAMES
Windows
Build and manage a cyberpunk megatower. You are the tower's machine-mind, stacking thousands of residents into one dynamic system. Balance resources, transit, and production chains across five social strata. Define your corporate identity and decide what kind of intelligence rules from the top.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, City Builder 19.7%, Automation 15%, Base Building 14%, Economy 10.9%
- #44 The Crust
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 4,355 reviews2026
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 24.1 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Build and automate a lunar colony that Earth depends on. Mine regolith, run conveyor-and-drone factories above and below the surface, manage colonists, trade with rival Earth factions — and play a story campaign with multiple endings.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Automation 17.5%, City Builder 14.7%, Resource Management 11.4%
- #45 Beyond These Stars
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Balancing Monkey GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 16.3%, Automation 13%, Resource Management 10.9%
- #46 RAT CITY: Ratocracy
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: wootusart Industries
Windows
Build and Manage a Rat City. Run it into the ground. Literally. Keep your Rats happy and productive. Create for them a glorious colony in the dirt! The never ending demand for the production of products to consume is all consuming. Wait, is this real life? No, it's RAT CITY!
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, City Builder 22.9%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 10.7%, Economy 8.2%
- #47 Isla Paradiso
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paradiso Studio
Windows
Build and manage a tropical island economy, optimize production chains, research new technologies, and defend your growing settlement against pirate threats in this relaxing yet strategic city-building game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.9%, City Builder 24.6%, Economy 13.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Strategy 6.4%
- #48 Terraform Co: Factory and City
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Melon Dev
Windows · Mac
One pod, one core, and an unsurveyed plot on a green world. Clear the ground, trap native grazers, mine metal and rock, and belt it all into a factory — then build the city that buys what you make. Fill contracts, climb the S&G-15 index, and keep the raiders off your core.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, City Builder 21%, Automation 12.3%, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 8.8%
- #49 Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
67% matchVery Positive92% of 11,793 reviews2025
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 11.5 hrsMean: 34.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, City Builder 18.6%, Real Time Tactics 12.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Tower Defense 10.3%
- #50 Bergfried
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quid Pro Games
Windows
Build realistic medieval castles and defend them against rival knights. Bergfried is a strategy game featuring organic castle building and tactical siege battles. Manage your lands, plan your defenses and lead your troops to victory!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, City Builder 18.5%, Tower Defense 11.3%, Real Time Tactics 10.9%, Wargame 10.5%
- #51 Settlements Rising
69% matchVery Positive81% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: The Catalyst Crew
Windows
Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Tower Defense 7.2%
- #52 Factory Town
70% matchVery Positive91% of 4,486 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 13.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.2%, Automation 18%, Base Building 17%, City Builder 15.9%, Resource Management 11.5%
- #53 Stronghold 4
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Wood needed! Return to the green roots of Stronghold in this narrative prequel to the original 'castle sim'. Immerse yourself in a cinematic campaign, hone your siegecraft with new mechanics in skirmish mode and customise your castles with a wide selection of castle pieces and cosmetics.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, City Builder 17.4%, Tower Defense 11.7%, Real Time Tactics 11.1%, Wargame 10.6%
- #54 Stelvyr: Colony Defense
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CannyEdge Interactive
Windows
Build and defend a space colony where every unit of power and every crew assignment matters. Expand production, research new technologies, shape the battlefield with walls and weapons, and adapt your strategy against alien swarms across nine campaign operations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.1%, City Builder 19.8%, Tower Defense 11.7%, Real Time Tactics 10.7%, Strategy 10.1%
- #55 Seventh Colony
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GeneralFR
Windows
Seventh Colony is a steampunk colony-management and alien horde-defense game set within a fortified industrial settlement surrounded by a hostile volcanic wasteland.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, City Builder 18.3%, Tower Defense 14.6%, Real Time Tactics 12.5%, Wargame 10.5%
- #56 Cliff Empire
70% matchVery Positive87% of 4,378 reviews2019
Dev: Lion's Shade
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, City Builder 19.6%, Economy 11.5%, Base Building 11.4%, Resource Management 10%
- #57 Recovery Syndicate
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bumblebee Studios
Windows
Recovery Syndicate is a prequel to Abeyance, in which you are the leader of one of the factions trying to reconstruct the economy of the galaxy. You must build and manage your colony's resources carefully, while watching out for rival factions who are also vying for supremacy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 14.8%, Real Time Tactics 12.4%, Resource Management 10%
- #58 The Blighted Frontier
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, City Builder 22.3%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 8.2%, Simulation 7.7%
- #59 CircuitVeil
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tylerlee Burhans
Windows · Linux
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.2%, Automation 19.8%, Base Building 18.1%, Resource Management 9.6%, Simulation 9.1%
- #60 Tactical Warfare: Siege Survival
67% matchPositive83% of 40 reviews2024
Dev: Mizrab
Windows
Immerse yourself in Tactical Warfare, a captivating mini-game of the base game where you defend your base against relentless enemy waves. Strategize, fortify, and survive to emerge victorious. Wishlist now for exclusive access to the playtest and full game on November 29, 2024!.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, City Builder 17%, Tower Defense 11.1%, Real Time Tactics 10%, Automation 9.5%